Tesco stays on top

Sainsbury is still trailing behind its biggest rival Tesco in the supermarket wars, according to figures published today.

Once Easter and new selling space have been stripped out of the figures, sales at Sainsbury stores grew by six per cent in the past year but comparable sales at Tesco, announced earlier this week, were 6.2 per cent.

Although both stores are undoubtedly selling more goods than this time last year, today's figures show that Sainsbury has not taken market share fro m Tesco.

Under the leadership of Sir Peter Davis, Sainsbury has made a strong recovery. But he has not yet persuaded enough customers to leave Tesco and return to Sainsbury in order to reclaim the No 1 slot in the supermarket world.